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Some of the best examples of Afrikaans folklore are stories recorded and written by Minnie Postma, [15] who grew up with and heard these tales told by Sotho people. Using these stories can give effect to a recommendation made by Robinson, [16] namely that the integration of culture in a language programme should be a synthesis between the learner's home culture, the target language's cultural ...
This category contains articles with Afrikaans-language text. The primary purpose of these categories is to facilitate manual or automated checking of text in other languages. The primary purpose of these categories is to facilitate manual or automated checking of text in other languages.
The name of the language comes directly from the Dutch word Afrikaansch (now spelled Afrikaans) [n 3] meaning 'African'. [12] It was previously referred to as 'Cape Dutch' (Kaap-Hollands or Kaap-Nederlands), a term also used to refer to the early Cape settlers collectively, or the derogatory 'kitchen Dutch' (kombuistaal) from its use by slaves of colonial settlers "in the kitchen".
Afrikaans can claim the same literary roots as contemporary Dutch, as both languages stem from 17th-century Dutch. One of the oldest examples of written Cape Dutch is the poem Lied ter eere van de Swellendamsche en diverse andere helden bij de bloedige actie aan Muizenberg in dato 7 August 1795 (Song in Honour of the Swellendam and various others Heroes at the Bloody Action at Muizenberg) [3 ...
Afrikaans is spoken throughout South Africa, and is the mother tongue of both whites and coloureds (in the South African sense, meaning a specific independent culture rather than the disparaging European or American use of the term). The literary history is thus short, but surprisingly vibrant.
In the period of time between 1 July 2009 and 30 September 2013, the Afrikaans Wikipedia was visited the most by South Africa (64.0%) USA (5.5%) Germany (4.1%) World (26.4%) The Afrikaans Wikipedia makes up 2.2% of all searches in South Africa, after the 92.7% of the English Wikipedia.
View a machine-translated version of the Afrikaans article. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate , is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.
A series of articles about failing marriages followed this article. In 1957, a competition was launched to find South Africa's youngest grandmother. The winner was Mrs G.P. Kruger of Prieska. She became a grandmother at the age of 31 years and 7 months. A Calorie chart appeared for the first time on 17 January 1958 with an eating plan a week later.